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    Herbert Brenon

    Irish film director and screenwriter

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  1. Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through 1940. Brenon was among the early filmmakers who, before the rise of corporate film production, was a genuine " auteur ", controlling virtually all ...

  2. Herbert Brenon. Director: Beau Geste. Herbert Brenon was born on 13 January 1880 in Dublin, Ireland, UK [now Republic of Ireland]. He was a director and writer, known for Beau Geste (1926), Ivanhoe (1913) and Sorrell and Son (1927).

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  3. Jan 13, 2019 · Herbert Brenon, Irish film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent movies through the 1930s, is born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon on January 13, 1880. Brenon is born at 25 Crosthwaite Park, in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin) to journalist, poet, and politician Edward St. John Brenon and Francis Harries.

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  5. Herbert Brenon is among the first great names behind the camera, a gifted director once spoken of alongside Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith. He is also among the early directors who can be considered an auteur, as he controlled many of the creative and technical components in crafting his pictures.

  6. Dec 16, 2023 · If Brenon’s name is unfamiliar, his films should not be. Besides Beau Geste (1926), which won the Photoplay Medal of Honor – one of the industry’s first awards recognizing the best picture of the year, Brenon also directed Peter Pan (1924), a smash hit if ever there was one, The Great Gatsby (1926), the first adaption of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s era-defining novel of the Jazz Age, and ...

  7. Brenon, Herbert. Brenon, Herbert (1880–1958), American film director, actor, and producer, was born 13 January 1880 in Dublin, son of Edward St John Brenon, editor and drama critic, of London, and Frances Brenon (née Harris), writer, of Dublin. Young Brenon attended the elite St Paul's School and King's College in the Strand, London, before ...

  8. Ivanhoe. (1913 American film) Ivanhoe is a 1913 American silent adventure / drama film starring King Baggot, Leah Baird, Herbert Brenon, Evelyn Hope, and Walter Craven [ fr] . Directed by Herbert Brenon and produced by Carl Laemmle 's Independent Moving Pictures after IMP was absorbed into the newly founded Universal, which was the distributor ...

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